News
20. Feb 2005: Threw out all the
pencil drawings. This immediately raised the quality of the site by
several orders of magnitude. :o) The former tab "Graphics"
has been renamed to "Design". Added the astroweek transparency.
06. May 2004: It was high time for a
good spring clean-up. I removed some of the more stupid graphical
art and put some more poster art up... though admittedly some of it is
pretty daft too. Some cosmetic changes such as lateral padding of
the text content were applied to the web design.
Main Page
Welcome to my homepage. It is intended to contain and present
my art in its three flavors: Design, Fonts and Langs. Despite
my pitiful lack of HTML knowledge, it can be navigated with reasonable
ease by means of the navigation bar. What each of the links means
can be inferred from the following description.
Intro: Click on the splash screen link if
you wish to view the intro picture again.
Main: You're reveling in its very glory right
now.
Design: Here you'll find my portfolio of graphical art — web design, posters, transparencies.
Fonts: My humble creations in the shape
of TrueType fonts, usable for both PCs and Macs.
Langs: Documentations of my invented languages. Yeah, it's an unusual hobby. Get over it already. ;o)
Links: Islands of usefulness amongst the
roiling sea of spam and pop-up advertisement.
Contact: Where to direct your comments,
critiques, donations, death threats and marriage proposals.
Explanation
In case you're wondering about the pseudonym Catharsis... here's
the dictionary.com definition (using X-SAMPA phonetic notation rather than
dictionary.com's own invention). Be advised that the intended meaning
is number 2, not number 1. ;-)
ca•thar•sis [k@'TAr,sIs] n.
- Medicine. Purgation, especially for the digestive
system.
- A purifying or figurative cleansing of the emotions, especially
pity and fear, described by Aristotle as an effect of tragic drama on its
audience.
- A release of emotional tension, as after an overwhelming experience,
that restores or refreshes the spirit.
- Psychology.
- A technique used to relieve tension and anxiety by
bringing repressed feelings and fears to consciousness.
- The therapeutic result of this process; abreaction.
[New Latin, from Greek katharsis, from kathairein, to
purge, from katharos, pure.]
That's it. Have fun.
-- Christian
© 2005 by Christian Thalmann
